German POW cartoon collection set to go on show

A unique and “internationally significant” collection of cartoons about Nazis in a POW camp has been revealed for the first time.

The pen and ink illustrations were created by a prisoner at Cultybraggan in Perthshire, Scotland, during the final two years of the Second World War.

The images detail the lives of the 4,000 inmates at Camp 21 – including those from the Waffen SS and troublemakers from other camps in Britain.

German prisoners are pictured carrying out manual labour and struggling with prison life.

But despite known cases of intimidation, violence and even murder, the pictures also show that life was not all bad for the inmates. The Comrie Development Trust, which took over the camp near the village of Comrie, plans to unveil the cartoons this summer.